Carolyn Birdsall

Research

Projects (selection since 2018)

  • AV-DATA, Impact Explorer project funded by the Dutch Research Council (2024-2025)
  • TRACE (Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe, 1930-1960), Vidi project funded by the Dutch Research Council (2019-2024)
  • Urban Heritage-Making: Cultural Forms, Local Histories and Redevelopment, Seed grant project, UvA Centre for Urban Studies (2017-2018) [see publication here]

Talks (selection since 2020)

Recent

  • Presentation: “From Oral History to Metadata? Report from the Oral History of Radio Archivists (OHRA) Pilot Project” (with Martin Düring), Transmedia History conference, Lausanne (28 Jan. 2025)
  • Presentation, “Activating AV-Archive Histories: From Enriched Metadata to Community Engagement”, FIAT/IFTA world conference (online) (16 Oct. 2024)
  • Invited talk, “Worlding the Archive: (Trans-)National Perspectives on Austria’s Radio Century”, Sounds of Belonging: Radio, Affect, History conference (online) (30 Sept. 2024)
  • Presentation, “Auditing Radio Cultures of War: Radio Luxembourg (1933-1950)”, ECREA annual conference, Ljubljana (27 Sept. 2024)
  • Presentation, “Activating Histories of AV-Collections”, IASA archiving conference, Valencia (23 Sept. 2024)
  • Presentation: “Collaborative Approaches to Transnational Conflict Heritage: Nazi Recorded Sound Collections after 1945”, Global Audiovisual Archiving conference, Toronto (14 Jul. 2024)
  • Keynote, “A Century of Radiophilia: Amateurs, Recording Practices and the Archive”, 100 Years Radio im DIY-Betrieb conference, Berlin (13 Nov. 2023)
  • Keynote: “Radio at 100: German Radio Archiving in an International Context”, IASA Germany – 100 Years of Radio conference, Berlin (10 Nov. 2023)
  • Plenary: “Radiophilia: A New Key Concept for Radio and Sound Studies?”, MeCCSA Radio Studies Network conference, Sunderland (27-28 Oct. 2023)
  • Presentation: “From Cinephilia to Radiophilia?”, Affective Intermediality conference, Cluj-Napoca (20 Oct. 2023)
  • Presentation: “Infrastructures of the Radio Documentary: Sound, Intermedial Aesthetics and Transnational Exchange between ‘Axis’ Powers (1930-39)” (with Simone Dotto), Visible Evidence XXIX: Documentary Ecologies conference, Udine (7 Sept. 2023)
  • Presentation: “Radiophilia: A New Research Agenda for Affect, Emotion and Radio?”, ECREA Affect, Emotion and Media workshop, Copenhagen (1 Sept. 2023)
  • Presentation: “Cinephilia Meets Radiophilia: Intermedial and Transnational Infrastructures of Media Fandom (1920-1945)”, HoMER network annual conference, Mataro (4 Jul. 2023)
  • Presentation: “Politics, Provenance, Access: Researching Historical Radio Collections in Europe” (with Erica Harrison), Radio Preservation Task Force conference, Washington DC (28 Apr. 2023)
  • Presentation: “New Readings of Broadcast Archives for Transnational Futures” (with Jo Garde-Hansen), BAFTSS annual conference, Lincoln (3 Apr. 2023)
  • Presentation: “‘Audio Recordings and Discs Make You Vulnerable’: German-Occupied Radio and Recorded Sound Collections in Benelux Comparison”, Media and Cultural Life in German-Occupied Western Europe (1940-1945) workshop, Brussels (8 Nov. 2022)
  • Presentation: “Architectures of the Air: New Broadcasting Buildings and Creative Practices with Sound Recording, 1930-1945”, Media Buildings: Architecture, Communications & the Built Environment online conference (7 Jul. 2021)
  • Presentation: “Sound Instruments and the Archival Impulse”, Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures, online conference (15 Dec. 2020)
  • Keynote: “Why Film and Media Historians Should Care about Sound Archiving?”, Retuning the Screen conference, Gorizia (2 Nov. 2020)

Conference / workshop organisation (since 2014)